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COLLEGES: Women's soccer: **Fourth-ranked Virginia extended its home win streak to 27 matches with a 6-3 victory over Boston College Thursday night in front of 1,745 fans at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers (12-1, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) scored a season-high six goals, while the Eagles (8-6, 1-4 ACC) suffered their third consecutive defeat. Junior Makenzy Doniak had two goals and an assist to lead the Cavaliers, while senior Danielle Colaprico had a goal and two assists. Sophomores Alexis Shaffer and Morgan Reuther each had a goal and an assist, and junior Emily Sonnett also scored for Virginia. ... **No. 9 Virginia Tech shut out Miami 2-0 on goals by Danielle King...

Pro tennis:
Megan Moulton-Levy, 29, a former William and Mary All-American who’s a pro doubles specialist, advanced to her first final of a top-level Women’s Tennis Association Tour event, at the Monterrey Open in Mexico.
The 5-foot, ultra-quick...

NBA:Joe Harris, a rookie guard who starred for the Virginia Cavaliers, signed a guaranteed two-year contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources told The Daily Progress of Charlottesville's Whitelaw Reid.That all but assures Harris will make the team...

WASHINGTON — Katrina Adams knew she was on the wrong side of the fence.
This was in the summer of 1975, when Arthur Ashe would become the first black man to win Wimbledon, when Adams was just 6 going on 7, a couple of years too young for the Chicago...

Timea Bacsinszky is a tennis player who is virtually unknown outside of those women who go around the world with her on the WTA traveling road show.
When your name ends in five consonants and your best major tournament advances are seven years apart —...

She's the Wizard of Woz, the woman who ran the New York City Marathon — "You don't know what the wall is until you hit it," she said — who posed, tastefully, for the recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue . . . who once was ranked No. 1 . ....

It was all about timing and about Time, the magazine. It was about the act of forgiveness, which Serena Williams, after the years and the memories, said she at last found a reason to offer.
Fourteen years ago, in 2001, Williams, a teenager but already...

Serena Williams was a mess playing her first match at Indian Wells in 14 years. Her game was erratic and her emotions were off the charts in response to a warm welcome from the fans, a sharp contrast to the booing that drove her away as a teenager....

The Russian tennis official who made derogatory remarks about Serena and Venus Williams, referring them as "brothers," has sent them a personal message.
"He has reached out to apologize to both myself and my sister," Serena Williams...

Suns owner Robert Sarver was so upset that the Spurs were missing marquee players (injured or resting after a European trip) and even Gregg Popovich (who appointed assistant Ettore Messina to coach) that he addressed the crowd in Phoenix during Thursday's...